Video jockey Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Video Jockey or VJ is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music.
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Live visual artists
Although less known by mainstream folks, the word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. It originates from a parallel with DJs, although most VJs nowadays have more to do with musicians than with DJs. Often using an analogue video mixer, VJ's blend and superimpose various imputs over clips. In recent years musical instrument makers have begun to make specialty equipment for VJing. Popular hardware include the Edirol V4, Pansonic MX & AVE series mixers and Korg's Entrancer effects unit. The evolution of computers have allowed for VJ specific programs to produced and allowed for easier accessability to the art form.
AVIT
In recent years VJings popularity has allowed for more Visual Art specific events to be organised. The biggest of these is AVIT, now held approximatly once a year in both Europe and North America. There have been smaller events held also in Germany and soon Latin America.
AVIT has 4 main purposes:
To increase public participation in VJing
To facilitate the development and skills base of existing VJ's
To raise the profile of live video performance as an art form
To capitalise on the networked community of VJCentral.com
VJCentral.com is the internets most popular VJ community and actively promotes the scene via its forums and community. With over 6700 members it allows for a similar open content system similar to wikipedia.
As time progressed and MTV's format changed, VJs began to host game shows, talent contests and the like. Soon they were given their own shows based on the type of genre that their "demographic" was interested in.
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VJ Hardware
VJ software
External links
MTV-type VJs
Originally hired to represent a wide array of musical tastes and personal ethnicities, eventually became famous in their own right. Essentially they were nothing more than on-air personalities, but as the popularity of MTV grew, they began to branch out past just introducing music clips. Soon they were considered by many to be full fledged music journalists, interviewing major music celebrities and hosting their own television shows on the network.